LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five of the kidnapped students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanization Afaka, Kaduna state, have been “recovered” by the Nigerian military. Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State disclosed this in a brief statement Monday. According to Aruwan, “The Nigerian military has informed the Kaduna State Government…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos-based pastor, Frederick Aramuwa, who was kidnapped while travelling along the Ipele/Idoani Road in Ondo State has been found dead. Aramuwa was said to be travelling from Lagos to his hometown, Ifira-Akoko in Ondo State and was discovered to be missing since March 31. Subsequently, his kinsmen embarked on a rigorous…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Obi, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, vice presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections, has expressed deep pain over the death, on Saturday, of Yonka Odumakin, Afenifere spokesman. Describing it as a personal loss in view of his closeness to late Odumakin and his wife, Joe Okei-Odumakin, Obi said in a statement…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former senator, who represented Kaduna Central at the Eighth Senate, Shehu Sani, has warned Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to be careful in his dealings with northerners, especially their elite, saying that most of them are hypocrites that would pull him down in his presidential ambition. Sani, while shedding light on his recent…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 1,800 inmates have escaped after a heavily armed gang attacked a prison in southern Nigeria using explosives, correctional authorities said Monday, in one of the West African country’s largest jailbreaks. The attackers blasted their way into the Owerri prison in Imo state, engaging guards in a gun battle and…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Akon’s cryptocurrency construction plans won’t be limited to Senegal. The artist-turned-mogul told Uganda’s NBS that he plans to build a futuristic city in the country. The Ugandan government announced on Monday that it has allotted Akon one square mile of land for him to begin planning an Akon City in the country….
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Stephanie Nana, an evangelical Christian in Edmond, Oklahoma, refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine because she believed it contained “aborted cell tissue.” Nathan French, who leads a nondenominational ministry in Tacoma, Washington, said he received a divine message that God was the ultimate healer and deliverer: “The vaccine is not the savior.”…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A drug trafficker, Goodluck Igbineweka Odeh, has been intercepted at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, NAIA, with 2 kilogramme of heroin, which has a street value of N564 million, concealed in the lining of false bottom of his suitcase. The 40-year-old suspect from Ikpoba Okha Local Government area of Edo State…